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Title: Wonderland, or, Alaska and the inland passage
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 Hyde, John, 1848-1929. From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Northern Pacific Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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l to the prince. Deprived of the support of her lovers counsels andpresence, she yielded to the threats of her uncle, and the ceremony was solem-nized. Half an hour after the marriage, while the rejoicing and the gayety wereat their height, the young lieutenant strode into the ball-room, his travel-stained dress and haggard appearance contrasting strangely with the glitteringcostumes and gay faces of the revelers ; and, during the silence which followedhis ominous appearance, he stepped up to the hapless girl, and took her hand.After gazing for a few moments on the ring the prince had placed there, he,without a word, and before any one could interfere, drew a dagger from his belt,and stabbed her to the heart. In the wild confusion that followed, he escapedfrom the castle ; and, overcome with grief, unable to live without the one he sofondly loved, yet ruthlessly murdered, he threw himself into the sea. And nowher spirit is seen on the anniversary of her wedding night, her slender form
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(73) 74 THROUGH WONDERLAND. robed in heavy silk brocade, pressing her hands on the wound in her heart, thetears streaming from her eyes. Sometimes, before a severe storm, she makes herappearance in the Httle tower at the top of the building once used as a light-house. There she burns a light until dawn for the spirit of her lover at sea. Almost directly west from Sitka, about fifteen miles distant, is Mount Edge-cumbe, so named by Cook, it having previously been called Mount San Jacintoby Bodega in 1775, and Mount St. Hyacinth again by La Perouse. Tchirikov,before all others, I believe, got it chronicled as Mount St. Lazarus ; and it lookedas if it would go through the whole calendar of the saints, and their differentnational changes, if it had not gotten pretty firmly rooted as Mount Edgecumbe.It is nearly 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, and looks like a peak of 5,000feet cut off by a huge shaving plane at its present height. This truncated apexis a crater, said to be, by thos

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